1 Curriculum Vitae – October 2013 Bonnie Costello EDUCATION Cornell University, 1972-77, PhD. in English and American Literature Bennington College, 1968-72, A.B. in Literature ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University, 2012. Cullman/ACLS Fellow, New York Public Library, 2011-12 Faculty Exchange, University of Padua, Italy, June, 2008. Bogliasco Fellow, Liguria Study Center, Italy March 2005 (also selected 2011, declined) United Methodist Teacher/Scholar of the Year at Boston University, 2004 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow, 2002- Boston University Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994 American Philosophical Society Research Grant (for travel to collections), 1992-93 Guggenheim Fellowship, 1990-91 Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1983-84 Bunting Senior Fellow, 1983-84; declined funding to accept Rockefeller ACLS fellowship, 1983-4; declined for Rockefeller Explicator Award (for Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions), 1982 School of Criticism and Theory, full fellowship, summer 1982 Harvard University Mellon Faculty Fellowship, 1979-80 ACLS Fellowship, 1979 (declined for Mellon) NEH Summer Stipend, 1978 and 1990 TEACHING Boston University English Department: Full Professor 1992-present, Associate Professor 1983-1991, Assistant Professor, 1977-83 Teachers as Scholars Program, 1997, 1998, 2001 Seminar Director, NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, 1985-86; 1987-88 Harvard University Freshman Seminar, 1979-80 Poetry Instructor, Maine Writers Workshop, 1977 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE American Academy Visiting Scholars Review Board, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Review Board, 2010-2012 Harvard Overseers Visiting Committee, Harvard English Department Assessment, 2007 Advisory Board, Modernism/Modernity Advisory Board and Book Review Editor, The Wallace Stevens Journal 2010- Advisory Board, Twentieth Century Literature 2007— Advisory Board, Literary Imagination 2007-- Panelist, NEH Division of Public Programs (television), 2006 MacArthur Nominating Committee, 2001- Advisory Board, University of Wisconsin Press, 2001- Bollingen Prize for Poetry Jury, 2000-2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Jury, 1992; 1995; 1999 2 Panelist, Fulbright Scholars, CIES, 1992- Panelist, NEH Summer Stipends, 1990 Consultant, National Humanities Center, 1990 Panelist, NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, 1987 Bunting Institute, Literature Selection Committee, 1986 Consultant, PBS Series on American Poetry, 1985 Judge, Radcliffe College Untermeyer Poetry Competition, 1984-85 Wesleyan University Press New Poets Board, 1982-85; continuing consultant Judge, Grolier Poetry Competition, 1981 Assistant Editor, Partisan Review, 1979 frequent reader for academic presses and external evaluator for tenure review and Ph.D. exams Boston University Service: Major Administrative Posts: Acting Director, Boston University Center for the Humanities, 2012-13 Director of Undergraduate Studies, American New England Studies, 2010-2011 Director, Writing Seminars (English Department) 2010-2012 Director, Honors Program, 2002-2006 Acting Chair, English Department, 2001-02 Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, 1995-97 Director, Freshman/Sophomore English Program (overseeing all composition and non- major literature courses), 1988-90 PUBLICATIONS Books: Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life and the Turning World. Cornell University Press, 2008. Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore. General Editor. Knopf, 1997; Faber and Faber, 1998; Viking paperback 1999. Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991; paperback, 1993. Marianne Moore: Imaginary Possessions. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. Amy Clampitt. Editor. Special issue of Verse 10.3 (Fall 1993). Articles in Books: 3 "Elizabeth Bishop and Poetic Tradition" in The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop ed. John Ellis and Alex Cleghorn. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013. "'Strange Pictures in My Head: Wallace Stevens in the New York Galleries." Wallace Stevens, New York and Modernism, ed. Lisa Goldfarb, Routledge, 2012. "Landscape Poem." Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Fourth Edition. Princeton University Press, 2012. "Contesting Modernity at the Kitchen Table: Still Life in the 1920s" in Before the Fall: American Painting in the Twenties. Brooklyn Museum, 2011, 141-207. "American Unreadability: Heterogeneous Form in Stevens, Williams and Moore." Present Perfect, ed. Axel Nesme. University Press of Montpellier of Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée France. 2011. "Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: 'Awful but Cheerful'." Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture: A Companion to Poetic Genre. Ed. Erik Martiny. Blackwell Publishers, 2011, 459-477. “Fresh Woods: Elegy and Ecology Among the Ruins.” Oxford Book of Elegy ,Ed. Karen Weisman, Oxford University Press, 2010, 324-342. “1913.” in New Literary History of America , ed. Werner Sollers et. al. Harvard University Press, 2009. “Lyric and the First Person Plural.” Something Understood, ed. Steven Burt. University of Virginia Press, 2009. Expanded from published keynote lecture, Beall Poetry Festival, 2006. “Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Still Life.” In the Frame: Ekphrastic Poetry from Marianne Moore to Susan Wheelcock. Ed. Jane Hedley. University of Delaware Press, 2009. “Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore,” Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Eds. Alex Davis and Lee Jenkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. “Wallace Stevens and Painting,” Cambridge Companion to Wallace Stevens. Ed. John Serio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. “Charles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line.” In High Loneseome: on the Poetry of Charles Wright Oberlin Press, 2006. Rept from Mosaic 35.1 (2002): 149-173. 4 "Jorie Graham: Art and Erosion," Jorie Graham: Essays on the Poetry, Ed. Thomas Gardner. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005 13-33. Rpt. from Contemporary Literature 33.2 (Summer 1992): 373-396. "'Trustworthy Speakers': Louise Glück's Meadowlands." On Louise Glück: Change What You See. Ed. Joanne Feit Diehl. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2005, 48-63. Also in PN Review 25.6 (August, 1999): 14-19. “A.R. Ammons: Poet, Sage, Ordinary Man.” Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons. Eds. David Burak and Roger Gilbert and New York: Norton, 2005. Rpt. from Raritan 31.3 (2002): 130-159. “A Whole Climate of Opinion: W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Bishop,” in Something They Have That We Don’t. Ed. Mark Ford. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2005, 98-118. Rpt. from Literary Imagination 5.1 (2003): 19-45. "The Soil and Man's Intelligence: Three Contemporary Landscape Poets." The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright. Ed. Tom Andrews. Oberlin: Oberlin College Press, 1995. 145-155. Rpt from Contemporary Literature 30.3 (Fall 1989): 412- 434. Fountain, Gary and Peter Brazeaux. "Foreword." Adrift: An Oral Biography of Elizabeth Bishop. The University Of Massachusetts Press, 1994. "John Ashbery's Landscapes." The Tribe of John: John Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Susan Schultz. University of Alabama Press, 1995. 60-80. "Attractive Mortality." Elizabeth Bishop: Geography and Gender. Ed. Marilyn May Lombardi. University of Virginia Press, 1993. "Rhinoceros Companions: Marianne Moore Letters at HRHRC." Rossetti to Sexton: Six Women Poets at Texas. Ed. Dave Oliphant, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. Austin: The University of Texas at Austin. 53-73. "Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop: Friendship and Influence." Twentieth Century Literature 30.2/3 (1984): 130-149. Rpt in Marianne Moore. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1987. "The Feminine Language of Marianne Moore." Women and Language in Literature and Society. Ed. Ruth Borker, et. al. New York: Praeger, 1980. 222-238. Also in Marianne Moore. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea, 1987. "Flooded with Otherness," review essay on poetry by Denise Levertov 1940-78. Parnassus: Poetry in Review VII, 1 (1979): 198-212. Rpt in Denise Levertov. New York: Gale, 1987. 5 "Effects of an Analogy: Stevens and Painting." Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism. Ed. Albert Gelpi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. 65-85. "The Impersonal and the Interrogative in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop." Elizabeth Bishop and Her Art. Ed. Lloyd Schwartz and Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983. 109-183. "Polished Garlands of Agreeing Difference: Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams." The Motive for Metaphor: Essays on Modern Poetry. Ed. Francis Blessington and Guy Rotella. Northeastern University Press, 1983. 64-82. "James Wright: Returning to the Heartland." New Boston Review 1980. Rpt. in The Pure Clear Word: Essays on James Wright. Ed. Dave Smith. Champagne-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. 221-233. Articles in Refereed Journals (not collected in books): "Traveling with Wallace Stevens." The Wallace Stevens Journal, forthcoming Spring 2014. "Address to the Audience: Stevens' "The Man with the Blue Guiar" and Auden's "The Sea and the Mirror." The Wallace Stevens Journal forthcoming, Fall 2013. "Reflections on 'The Moose'." Literary Matters, 5.1 Fall 2012, 17-21. “The Plural of Us: Uses and Abuses of an Ambiguous Pronoun.” Jacket2 January 6, 2012. http://jacket2.org/article/plural-us "Auden's Pronoun Trouble and 'Law Like Love'," Auden Newsletter September 2012. "Marianne Moore